Chytrid-like microfungi in Biscalitheca cf. musata (Zygopteridales) from the Upper Pennsylvanian Grand-Croix cherts (Saint-Etienne Basin, France)

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 157, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 309-316

  Krings, Michael ^a,b   Galtier, Jean ^c   Taylor, Thomas N ^b   Dotzler, Nora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Dept of Ecol Evolutionary Biology   (United States)

^c UMR AMAP   (France)

Author keywords

Carboniferous; Chytridiomycota; fossil fungi; saprophytism; zygopterid ferns

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; FERN; FOSSIL RECORD; FUNGUS; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOTYPE; PALEOBOTANY; PENNSYLVANIAN; SPORE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; EMBRYOPHYTA; FILICOPHYTA; FUNGI; PYRUS; ZYGOPTERIDALES;

EID: 70449520336     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2009.06.001     Document Type: Article

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